Transnational migration brings about far-reaching transformations in people’s subjectivities, including those that relate to racial and ethnic identity. Since governments classify populations into racially and ethnically defined groups, people who arrive in a new country become placed into pre-existing identity categories. Far from being value-free, these categories constitute complex structures of positioning loaded with cultural assumptions and hierarchies that enable privilege and prejudice. This is visible in the racialized and classed distinction between “expatriates” and “migrants”: migrants are often thought of as underprivileged people of color who move across borders for low-paid jobs, while expats are white members of transnational corporate capitalism with premium income and luxurious lifestyle. However, the accelerated global mobility of non-white professionals complicates these conventional notions of migration and expatriation. In this project, I explore these complexities by focusing on elite migrants from India who come to work in lucrative positions in Hong Kong. These mobile professionals share the geographies of work and leisure with white expatriates; yet, they might be hesitant to pronounce themselves “expats” because of “being brown,” hinting at the colonial structures of race, migration, and citizenship. So can they ever claim the same status? I explore these issues by focusing on how high-earning Indians in Hong Kong position themselves with regard to the existing categories of difference: choosing to identify as “Indians,” “brown,” “migrant,” “ethnic minority,” or “expatriates.” I further ask how these identities influence their life choices and experiences in jobs, residence, citizenship, friendship, and romantic relationships.